AVIATION: Umbrella for Airplanes

At New York's Idlewild International Airport last week, Pan American
World Airways opened the world's most striking terminala $12 million
glass-and-steel circular structure that is topped off by an immense,
umbrellalike, cantilevered roof. With a 114-ft. overhang, the roof can
shelter all but the tail sections of six jetliners at one time. Pan
Am's is the fourth individual terminal to be opened at Idlewild.
American, United and Eastern are already in operation. By 1962 the
North-west-Braniff-Northeast building will be up. So will Eero
Saarinen's spectacular gull-like TWA terminal. Altogether, U.S. and...